BACK TO HORSE-SENSE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4191, 31 May 1939, Page 3

BACK TO HORSE-SENSE

BRITAIN’S SOUND POLICY. “There is an urgent need to return to basic horse-morality in international dealings” (says Lord Border in . the “Sunday Times”). “There is another, and equally urgent, reason for our present policy. It is this: we have come to a point where we cannot any longer endure the ‘anxiety, state’ into which mutual distrust has thrown us. If this state persists something worse befalls the patient. Our range of normal life is seriously contracted. On the higher level we are distracted from the enjoyment of Beauty. Efforts to help folk to be healthy and happy arc gravely handicapped. On another level, bartering and market-ing-healthy and necessary occupations—ate being paralyzed. Worst of all, we are threatened on a more primitive plane; we are being dragged back to the savage in us, as witness the emergence of fear and its vulgar companion the jingo spirit. Therefore, because our crude and robust morality has been flouted and because life is ceasing to be livable, except on terms which freedom ret fuses to accept, we can do no other than pursue and reinforce our present policy. The whole world knows that we are not threatening war but that our policy is the surest preventive against war. We are entitled to be on our guard against further duplicity. If we are asked, why fear further duplicity, our reply is that our experience leads us to expect, .it.”.. ...